"Magic was the first and the best," says Jesper Myrfors, illustrator and art director of the first editions of the phenomenal collectible card game.

Magic: The Gathering certainly has a number of more celebrated illustrators. However, Jesper Myrfors — a North American with Swedish roots — is one of the most pivotal among those who gave the extraordinarily popular collectible card game its original form and substance at the time of its birth in 1993.